About

One person.
All the way through.

I’m Chris, the person behind Bob Swan. You deal directly with me from the first conversation to the handover.

Why that matters

Decisions stay close to the work.

No account-manager relay. The person understanding the problem is also designing, building and checking the result.

We agree what the work covers, what it costs and who owns it. If a decision changes the scope, we talk about it before it becomes more work.

The work I take on

Practical systems.
Useful changes.

I work on websites, applications and the connections between them, with a focus on appointment-led and service businesses in Belfast and Northern Ireland.

That can mean a clearer enquiry journey, a booking flow that respects the working day, or less manual effort between the tools you already use.

I work through the architecture and the implementation, with tests and a clear handover as part of the delivery.

See the work

Working principles

Clear from the start.
Useful at the end.

  1. Understand the real problem

    Start with the thing that is awkward, slow or getting missed.

  2. Keep the scope bounded

    Agree one useful outcome, its cost and its limits.

  3. Build the useful thing

    Choose the technology around the job it needs to do.

  4. Prove what changed

    Check the agreed behaviour and be clear about any remaining limits.

  5. Leave ownership clear

    Agree the handover and any ongoing care separately.

Next step

Have something that should work better?

Tell me where the friction is.

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